Figure 3.

Many of the discrepant findings relating to the role of the MTL in perception have used morphed stimuli [Levy et al. (2005); Lee et al. (2005c); Shrager et al. (2006); Clark et al. (2011); Kim et al. (2011)]. In this example participants indicated which of the two bottom images was most similar to the top image [paradigm used in Lee et al. (2005c); Shrager et al. (2006); Kim et al. (2011)]. Often, focusing on a single feature will provide sufficient information to solve the task, and thus, these morphed discriminations may not sufficiently stress processing the spatial conjunctions that comprise scenes (an example single feature is circled in red). In this instance, participants could merely determine which bottom image has darker trees along the shoreline, rather than processing the scene as a whole. Example from Lee et al. (2005c).